Antisthenes of Rhodes

Antisthenes of Rhodes (Greek: Ἀντισθένης ὁ Ῥόδιος) was an ancient Greek historian who lived c. 200 BCE. He took an active part in the political affairs of his country, and wrote a history of his own time, which, notwithstanding his bias towards his native island of Rhodes, is spoken of in terms of high praise by Polybius.^[1] He wrote an account of the Battle of Lade (201 BCE) and was, according to Polybius, a contemporary with the events he described.

It is likely that this Antisthenes is the historian who wrote a Successions of the Greek philosophers, which is often referred to by Diogenes Laërtius.^[2] He might also be the Peripatetic philosopher cited by Phlegon of Tralles.^[3]

Plutarch mentions an Antisthenes who wrote a work called Meleagris, of which the third book is quoted;^[4] and Pliny the Elder speaks of an Antisthenes who wrote on the pyramids.^[5]

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